Associate Professor, Department of Physics, MIT.

My research is in astrophysical general relativity, focusing mostly upon gravitational wave sources and black holes. Much of my work is based on using (and often abusing) general relativistic perturbation theory.

A more informative webpage describing my group's work will hopefully appear in the not-too-distant future as the group grows, probably here. For now, I'm too busy trying to get work done to spend much time describing it!


Research

My official departmental webpage.

My research papers.

Old gravitational-wave sounds; some newer ones.

(Continually under construction) material on gravitational-wave physics and astrophysics.

Really, really archaic stuff on gravitational waves from capture binaries.

A schedule of upcoming talks and travel.


Teaching

S06, S07, S08: 8.962 (general relativity).

F07: 8.981 (special topics course in gravitational waves).

F06: Research leave at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Past MIT courses: I have taught 8.022 several times in the past (lectures S04, S05; recitation S03, F03, F05).
      The lecture notes I developed can be found here.
           2006 School of Science Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
           2005 William W. Buechner Teaching Prize.

Even further back: Once upon a time, I taught freshman physics at Caltech; here are notes from that course.


Contact info

I may seem elusive if you are trying to contact me. This may explain why.

Personal

A brutally honest biographical description.
Last modified 1 July 2008